Important Chinese ArtLive Auction: 17 March 2021 • 10:00 AM EDT • New York

2021-03-14 13:10:09

 

Important Chinese Art (sothebys.com)

Important Chinese Art

 

Description

 

An important documentary archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Gui)

Late Shang dynasty, probably c. 1072 BC

商末 或約公元前1072年 小子□簋

finely cast below the rim with a kuilong band centered by beast masks and interrupted by a pair of loop handles with pendent tabs, the foot with a further kuilong band, the interior cast with an inscription translating to ‘On the guisi day Hua rewarded Xiaozi X ten peng of cowries at ShangX. It was that he had been ordered to mount a military campaign against X of Yifang. He used it to make this sacrificial vessel to honour Father Ding. At the fourteenth month, ju’

銘文： 癸巳 𢦚賞小子□貝十朋 在上□（㲋五酉） 隹𢦚令伐夷方䍙 □□用作文父丁尊彝 在十月四 舉

Width 11 ⅛ in., 28.3 cm

Estimate:   600,000 - 800,000 USD

 

A superb black-glazed 'Cizhou' sgraffiato 'peony' 'tulu' vase, Northern Song / Jin dynasty

Description

 

A superb black-glazed 'Cizhou' sgraffiato 'peony' 'tulu' vase

Northern Song / Jin dynasty

北宋 / 金 磁州窰黑釉劃牡丹紋小口瓶

 

the bulbous ovoid body rising from a flat foot and countersunk base to a short constricted neck and lipped rim, freely carved through the top layer of black slip to the ivory-white layer beneath with four large peony blooms borne on a meandering scroll with trefoil leaves against a combed ground, all between wavy overlapping petal-lappets around the shoulder and the foot, applied overall with a transparent glaze stopping neatly around the unglazed foot

Height 9 ¼ in., 23 cm

 

 

A luminous white moon jar, Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th century

Estimate:400,000 - 600,000 USD

Description

 

A luminous white moon jar

Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th century

朝鮮王朝 十八世紀 白釉滿月花罐

 

of generous proportions, set over a low slightly tapered foot, the globular sides gently sweeping upward and reaching their widest point just above the center of the body then rounding into a softly sloping shoulder mirroring the arc of the lower body, surmounted by a short subtly flared neck only slightly wider than the foot, the white body covered overall in a translucent glaze with a very faint glacier-blue tinge, the base unglazed

Height 13 ½ in., 34.3 cm.

 

Provenance

Japanese Private Collection, acquired in the 1950s. 

 

來源

日本私人收藏，得於1950年代

 

An exceptional and rare blue and white 'floral' bowl, Ming dynasty, Yongle period | 明永樂 青花花卉紋蓮子盌

Estimate:     300,000    - 500,000 USD

Lot sold:      721,800  USD

Description

An exceptional and rare blue and white 'floral' bowl

Ming dynasty, Yongle period

明永樂 青花花卉紋蓮子盌

delicately potted in the shape of a lotus bud (lianzi) or chicken heart (jixin), with deep rounded sides and a pointed base resting on a short, narrow foot, finely painted in rich tones of cobalt blue accented with characteristic 'heaping and piling', the interior decorated with a central medallion enclosing a formalized quatrefoil motif encircled by a narrow band of alternating stylized florets formed of dots and leaves, and further wreathed by elaborate interlocking strapwork forming heart-shaped petals enclosing trefoils, the cavetto with eight dianthus blossoms borne on undulating leafy foliate scrolls, all below a row of pendent trefoils and a band of zigzag lines and clusters of circles around the rim, the exterior painted with four blossoms of lotus, peony, chrysanthemum, and pomegranate flower, alternating with four emblems of zabao (miscellaneous treasures) including the ingot, double horns, coral branch, and yinyang castanets, between interlinked pendent trefoils and upright slender petals surmounted by trefoils, all bordered by a band of lotus scrolls around the rim and classic scrolls encircling the foot

Diameter 6 ¼ in., 16 cm

Provenance

American Private Collection, acquired in Connecticut.